Barbara Barrow

Barbara Barrow serves as an Associate Professor in English Studies at Lund University's Centre for Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities. She teaches multiple undergraduate courses including English Literature, Short Story Writing, and Level 1-3 English courses. Her office is located in SOL:H321 at Helgonabacken 12, Lund, with mailing address Box 201, 221 00 Lund.

Barrow's research spans nineteenth-century literature and culture, women's and gender studies, critical and feminist pedagogies, and environmental humanities with particular focus on the blue humanities (ocean-focused environmental studies). Her fingerprint analysis reveals strong connections to Buildings, Classrooms, Poetry, Students, Teaching, Prose, Democracy and Repetition across academic disciplines. She approaches literary studies through interdisciplinary lenses connecting physical spaces with pedagogical practices and environmental concerns.

Her recent scholarly publications demonstrate a consistent trajectory examining literary representations of environmental relationships, gender dynamics in educational settings, and Victorian literary traditions. Barrow's work bridges historical literary analysis with contemporary concerns about ecological crisis, classroom democracy, and queer theory. Her publications reveal increasing engagement with blue humanities frameworks connecting ocean studies with literary representation.

Barrow actively supervises doctoral research including projects on 'Sentient Bodies of Land and Water' and 'Substitutes of equal ability: Education, class and gender in texts of British Women Writers in the 1790s.' She contributes to the Lund Environmental Humanities Hub and collaborates on projects related to literature and sustainability in teacher education, demonstrating commitment to both research mentorship and interdisciplinary collaboration.

She is involved with several research teams including the Lund Environmental Humanities Hub and has organized academic events such as the 'Rewriting Mythologies for the Blue Humanities' workshop and 'Death and Rebirth in Literary Studies' roundtable, positioning herself at the intersection of environmental literary studies and innovative pedagogical approaches.